Pacific Islands Chapter

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Pacific Islands Chapter of OSGeo

Welcome to the Pacific Islands Chapter of Open Source Geospatial Foundation OSGeo, started on November, 9 2012, Fiji Time.

Introduction

Open Source for geospatial software has been advocated here in the Pacific Islands region for over a decade. The GIS/RS Special Interest Group of the Pacific Islands Chapter of Internet Society GIS/RS SIGhas been instrumental in the promotion of Open Source spearheaded by the Pacific Applied and Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) by making source code available to its Stakeholders starting with the GIS for Utilities Project in 1997. Since then the GIS/RS community in the Pacific Islands region have been thriving and active with Open Source sessions/discussions during the Pacific Islands GIS/RS annual conference GIS/RS Conference.

Objectives

The Pacific Islands Chapter, facilitates the advancement of open source for geospatial software, technologies and usage in the Pacific Islands region by:

Updates and Current Developments

2014

Fiji Sugarcane Industry WebGIS Portal using OpenGeo Suite with PostgreSQL/Postgis for database, GeoServer for map/middleware and GeoEXT and OpenLayers for web client with plans to use Geoexplorer by opengeo for webclient.

OpenGeo Suite with PostgreSQL/Postgis for database, GeoServer for map/middleware and GeoEXT and OpenLayers for web client with plans to use Geoexplorer by opengeo for webclient at Samoa Electric Power Corporation (EPC) [1] Web client [2] Geoserver [3]

Open Source GeoSpatial Research Lab and Training Center at CheSpatial [7], Lautoka, Fiji

2013

OpenGeo Suite with postgres/postgis for database, Geoserver for map/middleware and GeoEXT and openlayers for web client with plans to use Geoexplorer by opengeo for webclient at Samoa Electric Power Corporation (EPC) [8] Web client [9] Geoserver [10]